About the Glens Falls Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan
Who is on the Comprehensive Planning Committee?
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Bill Collins - Mayor
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Michael White - Comprehensive Plan Committee - Chair
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Bob Curtis - Resident, former City Clerk
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Patrick Dowd - Community Development Director
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Jeff Flagg - Economic Development Director
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Sara Frankenfeld - Warren County Planning & Community Development
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Matt Fuller - Meyer, Fuller & Stockwell
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Allison Hargrave-Gaddy - Lake Champlain-Lake George Regional Planning Board, City of Glens Falls Zoning Board of Appeals - Chair
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Matt MacDonald - City of Glens Falls Zoning Board of Appeals
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Joy Kaczmarek - Resident
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Sara DiLandro - Glens Falls City School District Board of Education
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Tom Landry - City of Glens Falls Planning Board
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Alberta Parsons - Resident
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Patricia Tatich - Resident
What are the Smart Growth Principles?
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Promote mixed land uses in focus areas.
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Create an adequate range of housing opportunities and choices.
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Promote development and redevelopment where infrastructure is adequate and sustainable.
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Build on traits that make a distinctive and attractive community with a strong sense of place.
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Promote well-planned and well-placed public spaces.
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Promote sustainable compact neighborhoods.
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Increase mobility and circulation within jurisdictional lines and improve connectivity with areas outside jurisdictional lines.
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Promote sustainable mass transit that reduces the local levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Promote walkable/bikeable neighborhood designs.
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Promote and integrate clean energy resources and related incentives.
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Improve green infrastructure and resident's participation to this effort.
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Increase resiliency to extreme weather events.
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Encourage social diversity and integration.
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Expand planning and implementation efforts across jurisdictional lines, to increase effectiveness, sustainability, and resiliency.
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Promote community and stakeholder collaboration in planning.
The City of Glens Falls received funding from the New York State Department of State to prepare a Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan.
This plan will assist the City of Glens Falls in creating an environment for equitable, sustainable, and resilient economic growth in the 21st Century. The plan will establish a shared set of values that will help establish priorities that will guide and inform specific actions that can lead the community toward a vision of future equitable and sustainable prosperity. Future prosperity means that the city increases its chances to create jobs, attracts (and retains) a mobile workforce and households with choices, and that the city as a whole becomes stronger with an increased ability to reinvest in itself and its future. This new comprehensive plan will be the “work plan” for how to achieve the overarching goals of economic growth, community attractiveness, sustainability, and resiliency.
What is Smart Growth?
Smart Growth is a community development strategy that aims to guide future growth in a way that prioritizes sustainability, equity, and economic prosperity by incorporating principles like mixed land use, diverse housing options, accessible transportation, and preservation of natural areas, all within a comprehensive planning document that outlines goals and actions to achieve them; essentially, it's a plan for managing growth while creating more livable, environmentally friendly communities. This project seeks to address the 15 Smart Growth Principles below.
